Comments on: Red-light camera warning signs create ‘halo effect’ around city http://thecoastnews.com/2012/09/red-light-camera-warning-signs-create-halo-effect-around-city/ Making Waves in Your Neighborhood Sun, 19 May 2013 09:47:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Henry http://thecoastnews.com/2012/09/red-light-camera-warning-signs-create-halo-effect-around-city/comment-page-1/#comment-43302 Henry Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:03:07 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=53413#comment-43302 Everyone in California needs to know about Snitch Tickets, which are fake/phishing red light camera tickets sent out by the police in an effort to fool the registered owner into identifying the actual driver of the car. (SoCal cities using this “social engineering” tactic are Bakersfield, Corona, Del Mar, Encinitas, Escondido, Garden Grove, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Laguna Woods, Los Alamitos, Oceanside, Riverside, Santa Ana, Santa Clarita, Solana Beach, South Gate, Victorville and Vista.) Snitch tickets have not been filed with the court, so they don’t say “Notice to Appear,” don’t have the court’s address and phone # on them, and usually say, on the back (in small letters), “Do not contact the court about this notice.” Since they have not been filed with the court, they have no legal weight whatsoever. You can, and should, ignore a Snitch Ticket. If in doubt, Google the term.

Also, a REAL camera ticket from ANY city in LA County can be ignored, as the LA courts do not report ignored tickets to the DMV. (This was revealed in multiple LA Times articles last summer. It is applicable ONLY to cities in LA county.)

]]> By: vassy everekyan http://thecoastnews.com/2012/09/red-light-camera-warning-signs-create-halo-effect-around-city/comment-page-1/#comment-43287 vassy everekyan Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:28:26 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=53413#comment-43287 I believe it is a scam to collect revenue, and it’s not about controlling people blowing red lights. They have been giving tickets to drivers making right turns on red, for obsurd reasons. So now people are making complete stops there, so they won’t get a ticket, which BTW is 550.00. If they are concerned for the welfare of the community, make it complete stops at red, ex: turn only on green, but they won’t because the tickets keep coming–pretty sad system.

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